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Working Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plains

dc.contributor.authorFricke, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-06T15:56:27Z
dc.date.available2012-06-06T15:56:27Z
dc.date.issued2008-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91305
dc.descriptionA later version of this working paper appears in Elizabeth Rudd and Lara Descartes (eds.), 2008, The Changing landscape of Work and Family in the american Middle Class: Reports from the Field. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 17-39.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores transformations in ideas of the good person as family member and worker, across generations and in the context of certain loss. The themes addressed include the moral sources of personhood in place, family, and work. Primary material comes from the contemporary everyday life a farm family and its continuity with the founding stories of ancestors who arrived at the turn of the 20th century.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlfred P. Sloan Foundation; Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, University of Michiganen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectNorth Dakotaen_US
dc.subjectGreat Plainsen_US
dc.subjectRichardtonen_US
dc.subjectFarming Family Lifeen_US
dc.subjectMoral Cultureen_US
dc.subjectWork Ethicen_US
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectEthnography -- U.S.en_US
dc.titleWorking Selves, Moral Selves: Crafting the Good person in the Northern Plainsen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology and Archaeology
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.contributor.affiliationumAnthropology, Department ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumInstitute for Social Researchen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumPopulation Studies Centeren_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91305/1/workingselves.2008.pdf
dc.owningcollnameAnthropology, Department of


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